Sentence examples similar to segmented shards from inspiring English sources

Most NoSQL and NewSQL data stores implement some sort of horizontal partitioning or sharding, which involves storing sets or rows/records into different segments (or shards) which may be located on different servers.

Mr. Jarrett parsed that concert into 13 jaggedly disparate but related segments, like the shards of a single shattered glass.

In "Will-O'-the Wisp," the dancers in the dark flit into segments of light, elusive shards.

But basically it boils down to this: Foursquare data is supposed to be spread evenly over different database "shards" (think of it as database segments).

However, since there are >2× copies of B, this segment may have amplified independently or inserted elsewhere in the genome as genome shards.

Shards from whiskey bottles.

Shards of memory remain.

He gives us only shards.

(Shards of shattered glass remain).

Picture giant shards of glass.

New shards keep emerging from the dust.